Since it's coming up on Halloween in all!

[mykil]

:MJ:I can dance like that! :MJ:

Just out of mild curiosity; I was wondering how many of you believe in Ghosts? And what are your thoughts on Ghosts? :dstkman:Spirits? “Good, Bad, Energies? Do you believe in God? :panda:Does this automatically make you believe in the spiritually of the whole substance?:lalalala: Does believing in God make you one hundred percent sure you believe in Ghosts? What else do you believe in? :kaboom:PEACE!

[Becky]

well what can I say Mykil...you are a hoot :thumbsup:

Halloween has got to be my most favorite holiday in the year with Valentine's a close second since that is both my baby's birthday and my anniversary.

To answer your question yes i totally believe in ghost. I grew up in a house that was mildly haunted but without a doubt there was a presence. Sure it doesn't help that i'm sensitive to these things so as a child i was easily spooked. It wasn't until I was in college that I saw my first ghost in that house and I would never have believed it if my husband hadn't seen it himself at the exact same moment. Yes its weird but we both saw this old last walk down the hall and knew that my grandmother was visiting the neighbor. I went as far as double check that in fact she was not in the house just moments after the sighting and sure enough she was across the street on the neighbors porch.

After my grandmother passed while my mother and I were cleaning out the house my oldest started freaking out that the lady in white was following her and wanted to go home. We already knew from past sighting that this lady in white was active in the house so it was a bit unnerving so have a 3 year old freak out.

Over the years I have sensed both the good and bad spirits. My mom and I used to go to open houses on the weekend just for fun and there were some pretty creepy houses in the old neighborhoods. My DH and I now go ghost hunting from time to time and I would have to say the most fun was on the Queen Mary. Talk about being surrounded by the unseen.

I tend to think there are both good spirits and bad. It best felt when you visit someplace for the first time. Like you can go into a home or building and immediately get freaked out or uncomfortable but have not idea why. The same goes for getting that warm fuzzy feeling. I rather feel the good stuff but that doesn't always happen.

I think I'm rambling now LOL. Who else wants to comment? anybody? what about you Mykil?

[mykil]

Wow a fellow Ghost Hunter! I have a strong and almost religious or cult like approach to seeing and believing. I started seeing spirits at a very young age, around five, and have never stopped. I have seen some of the most bizarre things that I can’t begin to assume anyone else would understand. I know for a fact that there are a whole bunch of unbelievers among us and they can write this off as some sort of abbynormal brain waves , or wanting to see cause you want to believe so badly. This is just not true as far as I am concerned. I have been putting much thought to this for way over most of my life and still there is no way in hell you can tell me there is no such things as ghosts!!!!
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I grew up in my grand parents house after they passed and my bedroom was the renovated living room where they spent most of there lives, now there is where I really learned to sleep with the covers over my head, and still do to this day!!! LOL!!! I have some really amazing stories; I will share if this thread goes anywhere, not till then so I don’t act like a complete fool!!!!:idea:

[ThePhiant]

well, I haven't seen any ghosts personally,
but I have been accused of spooking a lot of people. LOL
and after I spook them they pretend I no longer exist.
ROTFLOL
I disappear into thin air
maybe I am a Ghost?


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[Becky]

Sounds like the house i lived in LOL we never could stay in that house alone without having all the window blinds open and doors if the weather permitted. Somehow being able to look outside made it okay to be alone. To this day I have to sleep with my door closed because growing up as a kid our ghost used to walk the halls. Yeah most will think i'm a nut but if i am than so are you mykil :wink:


I grew up in my grand parents house after they passed and my bedroom was the renovated living room where they spent most of there lives, now there is where I really learned to sleep with the covers over my head, and still do to this day!!! LOL!!! I have some really amazing stories; I will share if this thread goes anywhere, not till then so I don’t act like a complete fool!!!!:idea:

[Becky]

keep it up Lulu i can use the entertainment :rofl2::biglaugh:


well, I haven't seen any ghosts personally,
but I have been accused of spooking a lot of people. LOL
and after I spook them they pretend I no longer exist.
ROTFLOL
I disappear into thin air
maybe I am a Ghost?


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[Barry]

That's the spirit: Belief in ghosts high

<!-- END HEADLINE --> <!-- BEGIN STORY BODY --> By ALAN FRAM and TREVOR TOMPSON, Associated Press Writers2 hours, 18 minutes ago

Those things that go bump in the night? About one-third of people believe they could be ghosts.
And nearly one out of four, 23 percent, say they've actually seen a ghost or felt its presence, finds a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos.

One is Misty Conrad, who says she fled her rented home in Syracuse, Ind., after her daughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicole and neighbors said children had been murdered in the house. That was after the TV and lights began flicking on at night.
"It kind of creeped you out," Conrad, 40, of Hampton, Va., recalled this week. "I needed to get us out."

About one out of five people, 19 percent, say they accept the existence of spells or witchcraft. Nearly half, 48 percent, believe in extrasensory perception, or ESP.

The most likely candidates for ghostly visits include single people, Catholics and those who never attend religious services. By 31 percent to 18 percent, more liberals than conservatives report seeing a specter.

Those who dismissed the existence of ghosts include Morris Swadener, 66, a Navy retiree from Kingston, Wash.
He says he shot one with his rifle when he was a child.

"I woke up in the middle of the night and saw a white ghost in my closet," he said. "I discovered I'd put a hole in my brand new white shirt. My mother and father were not amused."

Three in 10 have awakened sensing a strange presence in the room. For whatever it says about matrimony, singles are more likely than married people to say so.

Fourteen percent — mostly men and lower-income people — say they have seen a UFO. Among them is Danny Eskanos, 44, an attorney in Palm Harbor, Fla., who says as a Colorado teenager he watched a bright light dart across the sky, making abrupt stops and turns.
"I knew a little about airplanes and helicopters, and it was not that," he said. "It's one of those things that sticks in your mind."
Spells and witchcraft are more readily believed by urban dwellers, minorities and lower-earning people. Those who find credibility in ESP are more likely to be better educated and white — 51 percent of college graduates compared to 37 percent with a high school diploma or less, about the same proportion by which white believers outnumber minorities.

Overall, the 48 percent who accept ESP is less than the 66 percent who gave that answer to a similar 1996 Newsweek question.
One in five say they are at least somewhat superstitious, with young men, minorities, and the less educated more likely to go out of their way to seek luck. Twenty-six percent of urban residents — twice the rate of those from rural areas — said they are superstitious, while single men were more superstitious than unmarried women, 31 percent to 17 percent.

The most admitted-to superstition, by 17 percent, was finding a four-leaf clover. Thirteen percent dread walking under a ladder or the groom seeing his bride before their wedding, while slightly smaller numbers named black cats, breaking mirrors, opening umbrellas indoors, Friday the 13th or the number 13.

Generally, women were more superstitious than men about four-leaf clovers, breaking mirrors or grooms prematurely seeing brides. Democrats were more superstitious than Republicans over opening umbrellas indoors, while liberals were more superstitious than conservatives over four-leaf clovers, grooms seeing brides and umbrellas.

Then there's Jack Van Geldern, a computer programmer from Riverside, Conn. Now 51, Van Geldern is among the 5 percent who say they have seen a monster in the closet — or in his case, a monster's face he spotted on the wall of his room as a child.
"It was so terrifying I couldn't move," he said. "Needless to say I survived the event and never saw it again."

The poll, conducted Oct. 16-18, involved telephone interviews with 1,013 adults and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.